Fields of interest

PhD research

Emancipation in Postmodernity: Political Thought in Japanese Science Fictional Animation Supervisors: Chris Goto-Jones and Florian Schneider

My PhD research project studies the intersections between animation and political thought. Specifically, it explores the ways in which the philosophical notion of ‘emancipation’, along with its related concepts such as ‘domination’ and ‘resistance’, have been conceptualised in Japanese science fictional animation. Considering animation as an expressive medium, and science fiction as a locus of thought experiments, the project seeks to examine how animation can develop and deploy various innovative ideas about the future of politics, and aims to identify its grammar of expression. The project explores alternatives to contemporary methods of studying political thought in popular culture.

‘Ideology in the News: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting in Taiwan’s Two Newspapers’. M.A. thesis submitted to National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2003)

Conference Paper/Presentation

‘Dialectic of Utopia: Visualising Future Politics in the Anime
Psycho-Pass’. Conference paper presented at the Safety and Disaster in Japanese Popular Culture after Fukushima Workshop, Leiden University, Leiden, June 2015.